Word: slade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to the Slade Professorship of Art at Oxford, Gombrich is also a lecturer at the Warburg Institute of the University of London...
Into this pleasant company comes Slade Compton, a hard and frequently foiled newspaperman from the States, who has been hired to wash that Fascist smell off the king, so he can pass under the noses of the U.S. public. But even for Slade the smell is too strong. He betrays the king in the interests of dear old democracy, but not before he has downed gallons of the royal bourbon, and has had to fend off ardent passes from the royal mistress...
...fearing to be murdered by one of the king's henchmen, Slade has small thanks for his services to democracy. "Nada, Senor," says a philosophical waiter. "There is no importance." The waiter sums up the book well enough; even when turned upside down, given a dash of Psychopathia Sexualis and a medium-sad ending, these refugees from Graustark are still from Graustark...